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German civilians identify the bodies of 71 political prisoners exhumed from a mass grave on Wenzelnberg near Solingen-Ohligs.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 08172
German civilians identify the bodies of 71 political prisoners exhumed from a mass grave on Wenzelnberg near Solingen-Ohligs. The victims, most of whom were taken from Luettringhausen prison, were shot and buried by the Gestapo following orders to eliminate all Reich enemies just before the end of the war.

German civilians identify the bodies of 71 political prisoners exhumed from a mass grave on Wenzelnberg near Solingen-Ohligs.

The victims, most of whom were taken from Luettringhausen prison, were shot and buried by the Gestapo following orders to eliminate all Reich enemies just before the end of the war.

Date
1945 April 30
Locale
Solingen-Ohligs, [Prussian Rhineland; North Rhine-Westphalia] Germany
Photo Designation
LIBERATION -- Germany: Atrocities/Death March Victims -- Other -- Solingen
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Arnold Bauer Barach

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Arnold Bauer Barach
Source Record ID: Collections: 1989.27
National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
Copyright: Public Domain
Provenance: Arnold Bauer Barach
Source Record ID: 111-SC-205350 (Album 3209)
 
Record last modified: 2003-10-24 00:00:00
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